Russian illustrated books

Three volumes in one accompanied by plates vol., quarto (29.5 x 22.5 cm). Title, [2], 108 pp.; title, [2], 228 pp.; title, [2], 164 pp., uncut, some leaves unopened; marginal waterstain in vols 1 and 3, heavier at the end. Vol. with plates : 25 + 75 engraved plates in fine contemporary hand-colour, with upper wrappers and index for I and II part. Modern half calf gilt over old marbled boards by Aquarius.

Broadsheet (76 x 53 cm). Title, dedication leaf, 4pp. text, subscribers' list [pp. 2], and 10 plates on China paper by Cadolle lithographed by Deroy, Joly, Lemaitre, Fragonard, Renoux, Jacottet, Dupressoir and others; some spotting. Loose as issued in original printed wrappers; small marginal tears, a larger closed tear repaired. Housed in modern clam-shell box.

Folio (56.2 x 44 cm). 34 engraved views by many engravers after various artists, including 12 of the cities in European Russia and 22 of Siberia, on 22 leaves, with captions in Russian and French, printed on Dutch handmade paper watermarked C & I Honig IV, one engraving signed in the plate by N.Ya. Sablin; the first view (Zilantov monastery) cut and pasted at the time of binding on paper watermarked 'Whatman 1818', views of Kokshaysk and Astrakhan conjoined. Early 19th-century half calf over marbled boards, gilt rules, spine with raised bands, gilt lettering in second compartments, gilt decorative elements in others; joints restored.
 

Folio (39 x 30 cm). 27 pp. including title, with photoengrav. 25 plates. Publisher's red cloth, title in silver within gilt decorative border on upper cover, gil lettering on spine.

Folio. Title-page, 154 original subjects, printed on 59 leaves consisting of 80 etchings (on 29 leaves) and 74 aquatints (on 30 leaves); occasional light spotting and waterstaining. Uncut in modern calf antique, spine with raised bands gilt in compartments.

First edition; 4to (336 x 280 mm); with 53 plates, illustrations within text, prospectus loosely inserted; tear to a corner of one plate; original red morocco gilt; [4], engraved title, [2], frontispiece, letterpress title, [4], index [8], 263, xlv, 59 pp.

First edition; large folio (66 x 51 cm); 27 chromolithographs, including title, after Simakov, Makovskii, Sokolov, Savitskii, Karazin, Polenov, Kramskoi, Vereshchagin, Makorov, Bogdanov, Grigor'ev, Aleksandrovskii, Surikov and Samokish, decorative initials and illustrations in the text, many chromo-lithograph, text printed in black, blue and red (occasional spotting, some offsetting from plates onto the text, adhesion to text from two plates); original dark green morocco-backed cloth, upper cover richly gilt incorporating the Russian imperial eagle, spine with imperial regalia blocked in gilt with small restorations, lower side blocked in blind, white moiré endpapers, all edges gilt.

Folio (325 x 255 mm); 8 chromolithographs in the text (3 full-page), manuscript synopsis of Stravinsky's The Firebird and English translation inserted at the rear; publisher's pictorial wrappers, small inscription to cover, overall a fine example.

Folio (32.5 x 25.5 cm); 12pp., 8 chromolithographs in text (4 full-page). Original pictorial wrappers. A fine example.

Folio (325 x 255 mm); 7 chromolithographs in the text (2 full-page); publisher's pictorial wrappers with original envelope casing, a fine copy.